The U.S. Supreme Court’s June 29, 2026 action in the Okello Chatrie geofence dispute is already being viewed as a major privacy ruling for the digital age. By holding that constitutional privacy protections extend to cellphone location data gathered through geofence-style investigative methods, the Court placed meaningful Fourth Amendment limits on one of law enforcement’s most controversial modern tools.

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A new inter partes review petition has been filed at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board in IPR2026-00406, a proceeding captioned Duke Manufacturing Co. and opened on July 2, 2026. For patent practitioners tracking competitive challenges in the foodservice and commercial equipment space, this is a case worth watching as the record develops.

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The Supreme Court denied certiorari in Petition DENIED Justice Thomas with whom, but the docket entry indicates the denial was accompanied by a statement or dissent from Justice Thomas joined by another Justice. While a cert denial does not decide the merits and creates no binding precedent, separate writings can still be important signals for litigants tracking where the…
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Zoom Communications, Inc. has filed a new inter partes review petition at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, opening IPR2026-00407 on July 1, 2026. The proceeding is now on the radar for patent litigators and in-house IP teams tracking how major technology companies continue to use PTAB practice as part of broader litigation and risk-management strategy.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has handed down a major administrative-law ruling with immediate consequences for federal agencies, regulated businesses, and the lawyers who advise them. The Court said President Donald Trump may remove leaders of independent federal agencies, a decision that strengthens presidential control over entities long designed to operate with some insulation from the White House. At the same…
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The Justice Department has extradited 19-year-old Peter Stokes from Finland to the United States, where he now faces federal criminal charges in Chicago tied to the alleged cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider. According to the unsealed criminal complaint, prosecutors are pursuing conspiracy, computer intrusion, and fraud counts in what is shaping up to be one of the more closely…
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The Supreme Court’s decision in FCC v. AT&T, Inc. is a major win for federal agency enforcement and a significant development for the telecom industry. In a ruling issued June 4, 2026, the Court held that the Federal Communications Commission’s forfeiture process does not violate the Seventh Amendment, allowing the agency to continue imposing substantial monetary penalties through its existing…
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A federal judge on July 2 temporarily blocked Philadelphia from enforcing a city measure aimed at federal immigration operations, preventing the city from requiring federal officers to go unmasked, display visible identification, and use marked vehicles during enforcement activity. The ruling is an early but important development in a fast-evolving conflict between local efforts to regulate immigration tactics and the…
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The Justice Department announced July 2 that a Florida man was sentenced to 30 years in prison for traveling internationally to sexually exploit minors, marking one of the most significant criminal sentencing developments of the past day. The sentence underscores the severity with which federal prosecutors and courts continue to treat child-exploitation offenses, particularly when they involve cross-border conduct and…
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The U.S. Supreme Court has handed down a consequential separation-of-powers decision, ruling 6-3 that the president may remove FTC commissioners at will. In doing so, the Court allowed President Donald Trump’s firing of Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter to stand and overturned the longstanding 1935 precedent of Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, which had insulated FTC commissioners from removal except for…
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